What would happen if everybody posting material online suddenly stopped tomorrow? Suppose all the studios quit making movies, musicians stopped putting out songs and publishers stopped printing books? Would there be nothing left for us to read, listen to or watch? Obviously not. The back catalog of art on the planet’s deeper than the Marianas Trench. It stretches thousands of years behind us and if you started absorbing it all today, relentlessly, without sleep, and you lived to be 100, you’d still only ingest a small fraction of what’s available. And yet here we are - almost all of society fixated soley on what came out this week, if not yesterday, this morning or within the last hour.

PhilaLawyer.net | The Fierce Idiocy of “New!” (via peterwknox)

This does assume, however, that within that “back catalogue of art” that everything ever produced is of the same high quality and worth absorbing.  The argument is an interesting one, though I do wonder whether that obsession with the new is a reflection of ourselves, of our environment, or of what we’re considering “art.”

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